If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.[Also known as:]You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Absinthe: After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see them as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.
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